Mel Malkhassian, President

Mel is a geologist and petrophysicist with over 25 years experience in oil and gas exploration, development, and research. His principal areas of expertise are petrophysics, petroleum geology of carbonate and clastic reservoirs, and the integration of petrophysical data with geological data in detailed reservoir studies. He has worked and published extensively in the fields of non-conventional gas from both tight sandstones and shales, petrophysics, source rock analysis and basin modeling. He has conducted and supervised projects in most sedimentary basins of North America as well as South America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Austrailia.

Ryan Asher, Senior Geologist

Ryan joined the Geological Services Worldwide in January, 2009 and has since been involved in numerous projects involving stratigraphy, geological interpretation, geomechanics, chemostratigraphy, data management, log normalization, photomicroscopy, vitrinite reflectance microscopy, and tool theory. He has participated in projects all over North America, and has worked extensively in the Illinois Basin, western Canada Sedimentary Basin, DJ Basin, as well as in numerous shale and tight sand plays.

Gloria Koller, Vice President

One of the co-founders of the Geological Services Worldwide, Gloria has over 16 years experience in the petroleum industry as a geologist and a petrophysicist. She is particularly interested in the integration of geologic, petrophysical, and engineering data into a coherent reservoir model. She has done a number of integrated reservoir characterization and field studies of tight gas sands of the Washakie, Green River, Wind River, and Uinta Basins. She has also participated in a number of resource studies of various shale plays in the US. Previously, she was a part of international studies in Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, Saudi, and Denmark.

Loran Carter, Senior Geologist

Loran has over 19 years experience in petroleum geology, specializing in stratigraphic correlation and mapping, originally on paper, but now using computer technology. Most of her experience is in the lower 48. She has extensive experience with clastic and shale gas stratigraphy.

Loran earned degrees in Geology from the University of Nebraska and in Computer Information Systems from Regis University.

James Fisher, Consulting Geologist

James is a geologist and businessman with over 35 years of experience in oil and gas exploration, management and business development. He has worked on projects offshore and onshore in the Gulf Coast of the United States as well as several Rocky Mountain and mid-continent basins. International experience includes areas of Canada, Australia, Bolivia and Trinidad.James holds a BS in geology from the University of Dayton, an MS in Geology from Ohio University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Colorado. James is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, and the Denver Well Logging Society.

Larius Bally, Senior Geologist Consultant

Larius is a consulting geologist with the with almost 20 years of experience in oil and gas exploration, development, and research. He is internationally known for his expertise in sedimentology and stratigraphy (both clastic and carbonate) as applied to reservoir description as well as his work in non-conventional reservoirs, particularly tight-sandstone reservoirs. Additionally, he has considerable expertise in subsurface risk assessment and its integration with subsurface projects.